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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Tree's nightmare?
2. What detail does Tree seize on in Brother Rush's story?
3. What else does Tree realize in the vision?
4. Where does Tree find herself when she goes to see Brother Rush?
5. What does M'Vy try to ease Tree's mind about?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does M'Vy tell Tree about her brothers and Dab?
2. What makes Tree think of Dab when she is at home alone?
3. What does Tree learn from M'Vy about Dab's condition?
4. What does Tree see from the back seat of the car, when no one knows she is there?
5. How is Dab described when Tree visits him in chapter 11?
6. What happens when M'Vy follows Tree into the little room?
7. Why does Tree get upset when M'Vy says that it is time to go out?
8. What does M'Vy say when Tree and Dab tell her about their experiences with Brother Rush?
9. What ails Brother Rush?
10. What happens that Dab gets taken to the hospital?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
M'Vy tells Tree that she had not told her much about her family because she wanted to keep a closed fist to beat fate. Does Tree try to beat fate, or how does she try to deal with fate's effect on her life? Who else has techniques for dealing with fate? How successful do these other techniques seem to be?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast Miss Pricherd and M'Vy. How are they similar? How are they different? Which one is a better mother figure for Tree? What are the advantages and disadvantages of either one, as a mother?
Essay Topic 3
Do you think Tree will continue to go back into the past -- and into her own childhood -- from the little room? Or was her trip back into the past just part of her growing up and becoming the person she is in the present?
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